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Flag

noun

1.

Emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design.

2.

A listing printed in all issues of a newspaper or magazine (usually on the editorial page) that gives the name of the publication and the names of the editorial staff, etc.. Synonym: masthead.

3.

Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals. Synonyms: fleur-de-lis, iris, sword lily.

4.

A rectangular piece of fabric used as a signalling device. Synonym: signal flag.

5.

Flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green. Synonym: pin.

6.

Stratified stone that splits into pieces suitable as paving stones. Synonym: flagstone.

7.

A conspicuously marked or shaped tail.

verb

(past & past part. flagged; pres. part. flagging)

1.

Communicate or signal with a flag.

2.

Provide with a flag.

3.

Droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness. Synonyms: droop, sag, swag.

4.

Decorate with flags.

5.

Become less intense. Synonyms: ease off, ease up, slacken off.

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"Flag" Quotes from Famous Books

... he was fired with his great ambition to found a non-combatant service, which should recognise no enemies and be friends with every army. His ambition was realised when in 1864 the Conference at Geneva chose the Swiss flag, reversed, as its emblem—a red cross on a field of white—and laid the foundations for those international understandings which have since formed for all combatants, except the Hun in this present warfare, the protective law for the sick and wounded. The original ...

— Out To Win - The Story of America in France • Coningsby Dawson

... for weeks to come. "No one must guess," he concluded, "that the real Intrepid and Terrific are here safe in dock, that they will go out two days hence in the middle of the night, and dash away south to wipe Fritz's flag off the seas. We have picked the dockyard hands with the greatest care, and have them under watch like mice with cats all about them. If a single one of your officers or men goes out of the dock gates the game will be up and I won't answer for the consequences. Everything rests ...

— The Lost Naval Papers • Bennet Copplestone

... all was being done under orders, for I noticed that all eyes were fixed on the man who stood just under the window, and to whom the Chancellor was continually whispering. This man held his hat in one hand and a little green flag in the other: whenever he waved the flag the procession advanced a little nearer, when he dipped it they sidled a little farther off, and whenever he waved his hat they all raised a hoarse cheer. "Hoo-roah!" they cried, carefully keeping time with the hat as it bobbed ...

— Sylvie and Bruno • Lewis Carroll

... to where the armies of Britain and Turkey lay in the heat of Mesopotamia. Along the sandy bank of a wide, slow-flowing river rode two horsemen, an Englishman and a Turk. They were returning from the Turkish lines, whither the Englishman had been with a flag of truce. When Englishmen and Turks are thrown together they soon become friends, and in this case matters had been facilitated by the Englishman's command of the Turkish language. He was quite an exceptional Englishman. The ...

— Soul of a Bishop • H. G. Wells

... then lay a strip of pasteboard across from one to the other. On top of the pasteboard place two more groups of smaller spools a little nearer together than the first groups. Make these columns two spools high and crown each with a single spool decorated with a bright-colored paper flag fastened on a stick pushed down into the spool. At the base of the arch add three more spools on each side, o and o (Fig. 79), and the structure will be completed. This is not exactly like the original, but for a spool arch it is ...

— Little Folks' Handy Book • Lina Beard

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